Guy who purchased Tommy Aldridge drumkit from Diary Tour

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Guy who purchased Tommy Aldridge drumkit from Diary Tour

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I found this months ago and just happened to find it again. Its a pretty cool story how this guys purchased Tommys Diary touring kit for practically nothing. Pretty neat story i think.

http://www.breedbay.co.uk/forums/chit-c ... story.html

I hope the link is clickable, lol, might have to copy and paste, i have never posted a link on here, sorry lol.
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Thanks, very cool story!
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+1 8)
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I believe the wood-grain ones are featured in Afterhours.
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Read this link a while back. Very cool.
Between the Rosewood kit and the white kit he played a bronze/copper Sonor kit, this is the one most photographed on the Diary tour.
Hard to tell, but I believe that may have been used on the latter dates of the 81 tour as well. Pretty sure that the bronze kit is the kit used at the HM Holocaust.

Yep, the Rosewood kit is on Afterhours, and appear in the Day On The Green images too.

Great shots of Hughes Thrall there. That was a great album IMO. Frankie Banali on drums.
Tommy spent the time between the end of the Diary tour and the Speak Of The Devil dates gigging with HT.
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shred1 wrote: Between the Rosewood kit and the white kit he played a bronze/copper Sonor kit. Pretty sure that the bronze kit is the kit used at the HM Holocaust.
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I know that Rudy's and Randy's amp heads and cabs had all been hired for the HM Holocaust '81 gig. So i would hazard a guess at saying Tommy's kit was not his normal kit he played on. If he had a spare kit in the UK or he would of had to get the kit cased up and flown to England for the one off gig. Then back to the USA to finish the tour ?. Which would of been an expensive way to cash in on one gig ?.
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:shock: Wow!! That was abut the coolest thread I've read in a while...thanks for posting!
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